Nut.



E. E.' GAMON.

' NUT.

.AI-PLIOATION FILED JUNE 28, 1909 Patented July 5,1910.

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EaNEs'r E. GAMON, or NEWARK, NEW JEEsrnr.v

NUT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 5, iaio.

Application inea :inne 2s, 190s. serial No. 504,642.

To all whom #may eminem.

Ee it known that I, ERNEsT'E. GAMON, a 'citizen `of thevUnited States, residing in the city of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new "and useful Improvements in Nuts, of which and exact de* the following 1s afull, clear, scription, such'as will enable others skilled 1n theart to which theinvention pertains to make,.construct, and use the same.

The .object4 of my'invention is to provide a nut having amainbody portion, angular end members and a screw-threaded aperture for use on flanged pipe connections and similar flanged lmechanism, in' connection with bolts for holding'such parts in rigid union, and the use of my device results in a very considerablesaving of time in the uniting of such parts together, and also in making such connections in a more convenient and effective manner than has heretofore been the case.

A furthery object of my inventionf'is to provide the main body portion near the end members with a weakened or thinned porn tion, in order that said device may have a certain amount o f resiliency when undue pressure is brought to bear upon the internal mechanism of the/device, to which the nut is applied, as in/ the case if freezing in a water meter.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part ofgthe specification, Figure l represents my improvement as applied, to the flange of a water meter. Fig-2 is a plan view; and Fig. 3 is a side view of the detached nut.

Similar letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the specification and.

drawings. a

In carrying ont my invention, I make use of the threaded 'nut a, the main body portion being integrally connected together to the end members c, and which is preferably cast of any suitable material; The longitudinal sides of the main body portion Z2 of the nut are preferably made to conform to the body -al of the tube, pipe or other part to whlc the device is applied, when the threaded bolts e are inserted through the holes in the flanges and screwed home.

By .the use of my device, owing to :its

close proximity to the same,

shape and configuration, no inconvenience is experienced in the turning of the nuts while screwing-the bolts into them as is often the case where nuts of different types are used.

f represents a groove or saw slot formed in the under side of the main body portion of the mit near the end members c and in designed to weaken the main body portion at that point, in order to give to the nut a certain amount of resiliency or spring when undue pressure isbrought to bear upon 'the interior of the device to which the nut' is applied, as for instance, when a greater pressure than that anticipated is exerted in the casing thereby causing the end members 'c to spread bodyportion of the nut to assume a curved position, thus drawing said main body por-A tion ofthe nut nearer to the ange to which it is secured, thereby permitting the flanges to slightly separate.

I claim:

l. A device of the class described, comprising an elongated bodyportion of uniform width centrally reinforced and proand the vided with a screw-threaded aperture, dei pending end members integrally formed with said body portion provided with fiat bearing faces, said body portion on its under side being provided with slots located in close proximity to the inner faces of said depending end members. v

2. A device of the class described, comprising a longitudinally lcurved body port-ion of uniform width centrally reinforced and provided with a screw-threaded aperture, integral end members extending downwardly andoutwardly from and of the same width as said body portion and provided with flat bearing faces, said body portion yon its under side being provided with slots extending across the body portion, the outer edges of theslots coinciding with the inner faces of the end members.

This specification signed and witnessed this 25th day of June; 1909.

ERNEST E. GAMON.

Witnesses C. A. ALLisToN, v`L. M. SANDERS. 

